thank you for an elaborate and in-depth review, enjoyed imagining owning it. although it has a lot of nice-to-haves (e-ink, keyboard, etc) at 10x (that’s TEN times) the price of my usual phones Imma forget about it as soon as I click “post”.

anyone who missed it, add “zero zero zero” and “gomorrah” to you watch list

gOS threat model is “everything everywhere all at once” - nation state actors et al - and from that standpoint, yeah, eOS and lOS and whoever else is lacking.

but the vast majority of users have a threat model that can be boiled down to two things:

1. a lost/stolen device doesn’t compromise me - the fucker can’t get at my stuff and/or impersonate me, and
2. free from apple’s/google’s reign - I control what stuff runs on my phone

both easily accomplished with lineageOS and derivatives running on a $50 phone. if you truly want to spend four digits annually on Newest & Best, you do you, I’m good.